The Penn's Grove record., 1887-03-12

An unknown man, about % years
OF age, committed suicide in the MACH.
merry house of the Water Works in
East Chicago, on the morning of the
| It'll, by throwing himself into the pit
! beneath the crank shaft. He was
maugled beyond recognition. The
mangled body of Henry Baldwin, with
his empty pocket-book lying by, was
found on the railroad near Washington
Court House, Ohio, on the 7tb. 1t is
believed he was robbed and murdered.
Near Belmont, Michigan, on the Cyen-
ing of the 18th, a young man named
Ecklesdafer shot and killed Lena Obitz,
with whom he had been keeping COM
pany," and then shot and fatally
wounded himself. 1t is supposed he
was jealous. Mrs. ID. T. Wilson, wife
Of a merchant who fed West with
another woman last fall, committed
suicide on the 9Th, in Paris, Ken
lucky. Alexander Crawford, a cOlored
murderer, was taken from the Jail at
Winona, Miss. on the morning Of the
9th, and lynched by a mob. In Belvi-
dere, New Jersey. on the afternoon of
the It'll, four drTnkeu men were re-
fused liquor ut the Pequest Hotel.
They tried to force their way in, and
assaulted an officer manned Hays. a
tanner named McNease, had his skull
fractured by a club, and IS not ex-
pected to recover.
AT Ellsworth, Illinois, on the 9th,
thirty eight women marched to the
"Gallon House." kept by A. j..
McGrevy, and ordered him to close the
saloon and leave the village. He re-
fused and they attacked the place.
MeGrevy stood at the door with a
Ratchet, but he was knocked down
by a man named Whitaker, and the
women then ''rolled out all the liquors
and spilled them in the mud"
A large safe in a hardware store
at Mill Village, near Erie, Penna., was
blown open by burglars on the morning
of tie 8th. They used enough gun
powder to shatter the safe into frag
ments, throw the front of the store into
the street and break windows in the
neighborhood. Fifteen hundred dollars
damage was done and 500 in plumber
secured. Edgar Thompson, freight
clerk of the LehIgh and Susquehanna
Railroad at Allentown, Penna.. disap-
peared on the I'd after having suffered
from stock speculations. He drew
others into the net, and the amount in.
volved is variously estimated at from
fifteen to Thirty thousand dollars.
The Maritime Bank, of st. John,
New Brunswick, suspended IN the 9th.
The suspens on wss followed by the
failures Of r. A. & j. Stewart, and
Guy, Bevan q Co., of the same city,
two OF the principal lumber firms of the
Province. II is said the immediate
cause of the bank's failure was the re
turn of a quantity of English exchange.
The bank paid 5 per cent. interest and
the deposits were very large. Will 4
Smith, propr.etors of the Gilbert To-
bacco Warehouse in Louisville, made
an assignment or the 8.h. Their liza
billties are estimated at So, 0C0, due to
Louisville banks; their assets are p'acFd
at Sic, 900. Iumphry, Blake 4 Co..
cotton commission merchants o. st.
Louis, made an assignment or The Sth.
Liabilities, SAC, 600; assets. $65 1000.
The overflow OF the Nj IS IS ppj
river has flooded the track of the Mem
pins and Little Rock Railroad from
Hopefeld, opposite Memphis, to Madi-
son, distance OF forty miles. Little
Rock trains now go over the Kansas
City Road to Nettleton, and thence
over the Helena Branch OF the Iron
Mountain Road to Forest City. Arkan-
sas, where the. regain their own track.
The west baak of tn river, from the
Missouri to Mempl is, IS almost wholly
under water.
The boiler of Carr Brothers shin
gle mill near Alpena, Michigan, blew
up on the morning of the Sth, killing
En- ry Carr and fatally scalding Waldo
Carr. Eugene Carr was severely seal
ded. Frederick Allen and James Ryan
were fatally injured 10y the fy wheel
in the North Chicago Rolling Mills Oh
the 9Th.
In Buffalo, on the evening OF the
7th. William POhl, aged 50 years,
shot at Mrs. Wandp, a widow, but
missed her. lie then fired at another
woman, but missed her also. After
this he cred a bullet into his own
brain and fell dead. Two ranch part
ners, named Lackey and FTassier were
found murdered near Albuquerque,
New Mexico, on the 4th. The house
in which they lived was burned. Four
Mexieans who had been seen in the
nelghborhood are suspected of TIE
crime, the motive of which seems 10
have been robbery. The dead body
of Rev. Frank Belmont, a minister,
was found on the bank of a stream
in the Chickasaw country, Indian
Territory, on the evening of the 9Th.
He had been travelling with a team Of
horses ana $1,000 In money. but horses
and money were gone. There were
bruises on his body and a cut on his
head. Thomas Fogarty shot and dan.
gefously wounded f. j.. keiffer on the
street in Savannah on the morning of
the 7th. Keiffer had procured Fo-
garty's arrest for using obscene Ian
guage in presence of the formers
wife. At Grand Falls, New Bruins
wick, on the 25th ult., two pedd ers.
named Blake and Kelly, were as
saulted by "A IA named Seernay and a
number of others. Kelly has died and
Blake is not expected TO recover.
Seernay has been arrested. AT MD
night OF the It'll, Mrs. Smith, a widow,
living near Indianapolis, and her young
grandson, Cornelius L. Sutton. were
awakened by a rutfian demanding ad-
mittance. The boy warned the intru-
der away, but the fellow tried TO get
i'll at a window. Sutton fired through
the glass and the fellow turned away.
On the morning of the Sth his dead
body was found near the gate with a
bullet through the chest.
"A fle on the Bowery, In New
York, ON the morning of the Sth,
cau,e ed a blockade of trains on the Ele-
waited Railroad, which resulted in a
terrible accident. Shortly after eleven
o'cock a train came to a standstlll b.
tween Fourteenth and Seventeenth
streets. and a man named Matthews
got off the third car and out on the
narrow platform alongside the rails.
He started to walk TO the Fourteenth
Street Station and was followed by a
number Of men anxious to get to their
work. When they were within about
fifteen feet of the station the train
started, and Matthews, panic stricken,
clutched a nan standing beside him;